Headrest attachment



G A. HIPPLER. HEADREST ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED DEC. I4; 1921.

Patented Oct. 1.7, 1922.,

ATTORNEY.

Patented @ct. 1?, 1222.

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I-IEADR-EST ATTACHMENT.

Application filed December 14-, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. HIPPLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Johnstown, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Head Rest Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in attachments to barbers chairs to support the head rest when not in use, and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be applied without material structural change to various sizes and forms of chairs.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a con ventional barbers chair with improved attachment applied.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of a portion of the base and seat portions of a conventional barbers chair with the improved device applied and in section on the line 22 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detached plan view of the improved device.

Every ba-rbers chair is provided with a detachable head rest for use when a patron is to be shaved, but when the hair is to be cut or the head shampooed or otherwise treated, the head rest is removed, and its disposition when not in use has heretofore been a source of annoyance and inconvenience, but by the arrangement of the device herewith disclosed the disposition of the head rest when not in use is a very simple matter.

The attachment herein shown and described provides a convenient and readily applied and accessible support for such head rest when not in use, and comprises a body or plate 10 preferably of sheet metal, and having spaced projections 11 at one side and spaced projections 12 at the other side Serial No. 522,321.

and with a downturned lip portion 18 between the projections 12.

The projections 12 are upturned at an angle to the body portion while the lip 13 is downturned at right angles to the body portion. The projections 11 extend in parallel relation to the body 10.

n applying the improved device, the projections 11 and the body portion 10 are inserted between the base 14 and seat 15 of a barbers chair with the lip 13 bearing against the rear face of the base and the projections 12 extending rearwardly of the base and the seat.

The portions 12 are thus in position to receive and support the head rest, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The body portion 16 of the head rest bears upon the upwardly curving members 12, while the stock portion 17 extends between the members 12 and against the lip portion 13.

The lip portion 13 thus serves the two fold. function of a stop to limit the inward movement of the body 10 and prevent it from being thrust too far beneath the seat, and likewise as a guard to the rear face of the base 14- to prevent abrasion thereof by the stock portion 17 The improved device is simple in construction, can be constructed from a single sheet of metal, preferably steel, and plated or otherwise ornamented and protected.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the drawings and set forth in the specification, but it will be understood that modification within the scope of the claimed invention may be made in the construction without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. As a new article of manufacture, an attachrnent for-barbers chairs comprising a body portion having spaced projections from its opposite side edges, and a downturned lip between the projections at one side, the projections at one side adapted to be inserted between the seat base and seat of a barbers chair and the projections at the other side curved upwardly to form supports for the head rest of the chair when not in use, with the downturned lip 1y right angles to said body portion, said bearingagainst the rear face of the seatbody portion being adapted to be inserted 10 base. I between the seat cushion and seat base, said 2. A headrest hanger for barbers chairs, lip adapted to engage the rear face of said 5 comprising a body portion having two seat base.

spaced projections curved upwardly there- In testimony whereof, I aflix my signafrom at one side, and a downturned lip beture hereto. tween said projections bent at approximate- GEORGE A. HIPPLER. 

